Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Our Amazing Pope

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Realizing the need to use Protestant authors with a deiscerning Catholic mind, I have been greatly helped and influenced by:

David Alan Black and his "Why Four Gospels?" book which as he states is fundamentally an exposition of the work of the late scripture scholar, Dom Bernard Orchard, OSB. This work uphold the academic and historical basis for Matthew as the first Gospel rather than Mark and gives interesting theories for Luke and John as well.

William Barclay and his Daily Bible commentary series have been excellent. I first learned of him from a talk by Venerable Fulton Sheen back in college c. 1980 or so. I think these works were the fiest to help me see Jesus and the Gospel in the light of his times and culture.

And of course, NT Wright in so many ways: his emphasis upon the role of the Kingdom in Jesus' preaching; his apologetics in the face of the Jesus of History v. Christ of Faith debates; his "Everyone" series...so many things.

I am starting to hear things about Phillip Yancey and am thinking of picking up his book, "The Jesus I Never Knew"...anyone have a word for or against this book/author?

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Prayer of Thomas Merton

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always, though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.